Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Socrates

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Socrates

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Socrates

By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Socrates

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Socrates

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Socrates

Creation is man’s immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates